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on August 1, 2022, Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers (in brown) and Pakistani Rangers take part in the Beating the Retreat ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah border post, about 35 km from Amritsar.

A man looks on at a snow-covered security checkpoint that marks the entrance to Logar province, beyond the southern gate on January 17, 2022 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)

Commentary

Why India and the US Should Work Together in Central Asia

Aparna Pande

Senior Fellow

Aparna Pande

Mar 7, 2022

Commentary

5 Min Read

China's sole aircraft carrier, the Liaoning (R), arrives in Hong Kong waters on July 7, 2017. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

Biden Now Needs a Plan to Deter China

Husain Haqqani

Senior Fellow

Aparna Pande

Senior Fellow

Husain Haqqani & Aparna Pande

Mar 2, 2022

Commentary

8 Min Read

Commentary

China’s Battle for Influence in South & Southeast Asia: Can It Succeed?

Patrick M. Cronin

Asia-Pacific Security Chair

Patrick M. Cronin

Feb 16, 2022

Commentary

1 Min Read

Taliban pose for media on Wazir Hill on September 19, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Commentary

Incentives Will Not Change the Taliban

Husain Haqqani

Senior Fellow

Husain Haqqani

Feb 15, 2022

Commentary

5 Min Read

Commentary

Biden Keeping Half of Afghanistan’s $7B in Assets for 9/11 Victims

Husain Haqqani

Senior Fellow

Husain Haqqani

Feb 13, 2022

Commentary

1 Min Read

Heavy security arrangements deployed at the entrance of the Mini Secretariat on December 24, 2021 in Ludhiana, India, following a bomb attack by Sikh separatists. (Photo by Gurpreet Singh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Commentary

German Arrests Show Pakistani Support for Sikh Extremism in India

Aparna Pande

Senior Fellow

Sam Westrop

Middle East Forum

Aparna Pande & Sam Westrop

Feb 3, 2022

Commentary

4 Min Read

Taliban police are seen at a checkpoint on September 24, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Commentary

Making Sense of the Islamic State’s War on the Afghan Taliban

Abdul Sayed

Independent Researcher

Pieter Van Ostaeyen

historian and Arabist and a PhD candidate in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Univeristy of Leuven

Charlie Winter

Director of Research, Extrac

Abdul Sayed, Pieter Van Ostaeyen & Charlie Winter

Jan 25, 2022

Commentary

Long Read

In the Media

Afghanistan Sent Signal of Bad Thinking, Weakness and Irresolution

Douglas J. Feith

Senior Fellow

Douglas J. Feith

Jan 18, 2022

In the Media

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends COP26 on November 02, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Commentary

India’s Delicate Balancing Act Between Russia and the US

Aparna Pande

Senior Fellow

Aparna Pande

Dec 15, 2021

Commentary

5 Min Read

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends on day three of COP26 on November 02, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Commentary

Passage Through India

Mike Watson

Former Fellow

Mike Watson

Nov 1, 2021

Commentary

1 Min Read

Podcast

Counterbalance | Ep. 29: Great Power Competition and Future of American Defense Policy

Marshall Kosloff

Former Media Fellow

Marshall Kosloff

Oct 14, 2021

Podcast

The Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Rankin is seen during AUSINDEX 21, a biennial maritime exercise between the Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy on September 5, 2021 in Darwin, Australia (Yuri Ramsey/Australian Defence Force/Getty Images)

Reports

Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific: Two Different Worlds